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Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2 [Obits]

It has always been an unspoken fear—or assumption, even—that the dual-touchscreen followup to the original OLPC, the XO-2, would never come to pass. But we let the dream live! Until today: the XO-2 is officially scrapped. Full Article at Gizmodo

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